Fruit and vegetable masher.



JOHANN V srnPHAN, 'BEIENBURG, or SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

FRUIT Ann-VEGETABLE MASHER.

No. 911,108. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Feb. 2, 1909.

Application filed February 20,1908. 7 Serial N 0. 416,953.

To all whom it may concern..- a 1 I Be it known that I, 'JOHANNV SVTEPHAN' BEIENBURG, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and a resident of the city of Seattle, in the county of King and Stateof Washington, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Fruit and Vegetable Mashers, of which the following is a specification. 7

My invention aims primarily to rovide a comparatively simple device of t e above type, by which vegetables and fruit or the like can be mashed in an expeditious manner.

With the above and other'o'bjects in view, to be referred to as the description progresses, the invention resides in the structural features, arrangement and combinations of parts hereinafter described and succinctly defined in the claim hereto annexed.

Referring now to the accompanying drawing, in which like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views 2 Figure 1 is a view in vertical section of'a de-' vice, constructed in accordance with my invention.' Fig. 2 is a view taken at right angles to the section shown in Fig. 1, being in partial section taken on line 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the conveyer blades removed from the rotary masher. r

In carrying out my invention, I provide a suitable casing 1, formed of upperand lower sections hinged at 2 as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1, the upper of said sections being pro-' vided with a suitable hopper 3. 1

Mounted eccentrically in casing 1 is a rotary masher 4, of cylindrical form the same I i being supported for rotation in seats 5, formed in the side walls of casing 1 (see Fig. 2) and provided with outwardly projecting stub shafts 6 to one .of which an operating handle7 is conveniently secured.

Mounted in the rotary masher c for sliding into and out of the same are conveyer blades 8, said blades operating in pairs, one bladeof each pair moving into the rotary masher while the other is being projected, as will be more readilyunderstood hereinafter. Blades 8 have their outer end portions in constant engagement with the adjacent wall of easing 1 and said wall is so shaped as to cause the alternately inward and outward movements of said blades during movement of the rotary masher.

Reference numeral 9 indicates astrainer supported in the wall of easing 1, at the upwardly moving side of rotary masher 4, where the eccentricity of the peripheral portion of said masher is such that the space for the materials tobe mashed, gradually decreases in width toward the upper end portion of the screen. Asnow considered, I prefer that the rotary masher engage said strainer at the upper portion thereof, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1, whereby it will be impossible for any of the material being conveyed past the strainer, as will readily be understood.

By my improved construction the conveyer blades 8 will obviously prevent any backward movement of the materials while they are being acted upon by the rotary masher to force the same through the strainer.

Casing 1 may be provided with a suitable stand, as 10, which may be secured to a table or other suitable support in any desired being well spaced from the side edge portions of said blades so that one set of blades can slide freely by the other set. T 0 arrange these blades in the rotary masher, the set connected by arms 8 are first inserted in 'one of the guide ways 4 of the masher, then the other blades are inserted into the other guide way 4 of the-masher from the opposite ends thereof as will be readily observed by reference to Figs. 1 and 3.

By supporting the rotary masher in seats formed in the walls of easing 1, I am enabled to provide a simple construction, wherein blades 8 will be of the required width to fit snugly in the casing.

' Seats 5 are formed partly in both of the- "upper and lower sections of the casing 1,

w ereby upon swinging upwardly the upper casing section said masher can be removed, when desired.

Strainer 9 is provided with a handle 9", whereby it can be removed and others of a finer or coarser nature substituted to meet the different conditions of the material to be acted upon.

While I have herein shown and described a preferred embodiment of my invention, 1

reserve the right to make such changes in the structural details thereof as fall Within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States of America, is:

A device of the character described comprising a casing provided in its Walls with a strainer, a masher supported eccentrically in. said casing for rotation, a pair of conveyor blades slidably supported in said masher for alternate projection and retraction, said blades being connected by rigid spaced arms, a second pair of conveyer blades slidably supported in said masher provided at their inner ends With extensions extending between the rigid connecting arms of said first named pair of blades, the said. extensions litting beside one another and being unsecured, all of said blades having their outer end portions continually in engagement with the adjacent Wall of the casing, said wall of the casing being shaped to cause said blades to move alternately into and out of said masher, and a crank fixed said masher for rotating; the same.

Signed at Seattle l l ashington this 3d day of Jany. 1908.

JOHANN S'lllllllAN .lillllh fill-KG.

Witnesses STEPHEN A. BROOKS,

EDWARD W. CRESSMAN. 

